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1 | 1783 | - Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock.
- Englishmen, Henry Cort invents the steel roller for steel production.
- Joseph Michel Montgolfier and Jacques Etienne Montgolfier invent the hot-air balloon.
- Louis Sebastien demonstrates the first parachute.
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2 | 1784 | - Andrew Meikle invents the threshing machine.
- Joseph Bramah invents the safety lock.
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3 | 1785 | - Blanchard invents a working parachute.
- Charles Augustus Coulomb invents the torsion balance.
- Claude Berthollet invents chemical bleaching.
- Edmund Cartwright invents the power loom.
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4 | 1786 | - John Fitch invents a steamboat.
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5 | 1789 | - George Washington first president of the United States 1789-1797.
- The guillotine is invented.
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6 | 1790 | - The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard of Philadelphia for a machine that roves and spins cotton.
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7 | 1791 | - Early bicycles invented in Scotland.
- John Barber invents the gas turbine.
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8 | 1792 | - The first ambulance.
- William Murdoch invents gas lighting.
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9 | 1794 | - Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin.
- Welshmen, Philip Vaughan invents ball bearings.
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10 | 1795 | - Francois Appert invents the preserving jar for food.
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11 | 1796 | - Edward Jenner creates a smallpox vaccination.
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12 | 1797 | - A British inventor, Henry Maudslay invents the first metal or precision lathe.
- John Adams president of the USA 1797-1801.
- Wittemore patents a carding machine.
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13 | 1798 | - Aloys Senefelder invents lithography.
- The first soft drink invented.
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14 | 1799 | - Alessandro Volta invents the battery.
- Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for sheet paper making.
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15 | 1800 | - Frenchmen, J.M. Jacquard invents the Jacquard Loom.
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16 | 1801 | - Thomas Jefferson president of the USA 1801-1809.
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17 | 1804 | - Freidrich Winzer (Winsor) was the first person to patent gas lighting.
- Richard Trevithick, an English mining engineer, developed the first steam-powered locomotive.
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